So, you want to be the very best that no one ever was? Is catching them your real test, training them your cause? Will you travel across the land, searching far and wide? Do you have the skills to be number one; the very best? Well, here's a how-to that will teach you how to be a Pokémon Master! Being a Pokémon Master requires some hard work and patience, as well as a bunch of Pokémon.

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Steps

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If you do not have a Pokémon game, buy one! You'll also need a Nintendo DS, DS lite, DSi, DSi XL,3DS or a Game Boy.It is highly recommended to get at least one Generation VI game,Generation VI spin-off game,Generation V game, Generation V spin-off game, Generation IV game, and a Generation IV spin-off game (some examples of spin-off games are Battle and Get! Pokémon Typing DS and Pokémon Ranger: Guardian Signs). Generations I-III are played on the Nintendo Game Boy. The newest console you can play generation 1 and 2 games on is the Game Boy Advance SP, but Generation 3 games can be played on the Nintendo DS and the Nintendo DS Lite. Starting in Pokémon HeartGold and Pokémon SoulSilver versions, you can catch almost all 493 Pokémon and there has been almost no need for migrating since. Once you have gotten your game(s) and have chosen your starter Pokémon, go on to step 2.

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Visit an online Pokémon walkthrough site.

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Do whatever errand is required in the game. When you get some Poké Balls, catch some new Pokémon. They have to be wild ones, so head into some grass to randomly fight a wild Pokémon. Have your current Pokémon fight it, and weaken, but not defeat it. Once they are as weak as they can get, throw a Pokéball at the wild Pokémon. The less health has, the better chance the capture is successful. Once successful, you can use your new Pokémon immediately if you have an empty spot in your party. You have 6 slots in your party. Any Pokémon caught without an empty slot is transported to Someone's (soon to be either Bill's, Lanette's, Amanita's or Bebe's, depending on the version you chose) PC, which can be accessed at computers at a Pokémon Center.

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Start training your Pokémon. The above method is a good way to catch Pokémon. Now you have to train them! Have them battle against wild Pokémon and gain experience points. Make sure that you heal your Pokémon at Pokémon Centers in cities and towns. Pokémon Centers give their services for free. Also, go shopping at Poké Marts for important items that will help you on your journey. If you look at the statistics of your Pokémon, you can see how many experience points it takes for them to get to the next level. Every Pokémon defeated is worth some experience points for your Pokémon, and every level gained makes your Pokémon stronger.

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Learn the stats. Every level gained makes your Pokémon stronger. But how much stronger? Take a look at the statistics screen. It should have Hit Points, Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, and Speed. Hit Points indicate how much damage the Pokémon can take before passing out. Attack controls how powerful your Pokémon is with physical attacks, such as Giga impact or Outrage. Defense controls how much damage your Pokémon take from physical attacks, the more defense the less damage. Special Attack controls the strength of special attacks, like Ice Beam or Thunder Shock. Special Defense is like normal Defense, except against Special Attacks. (Note that in Red, Blue, and Yellow, Special Attack and Special Defense are simply one stat: Special.) Finally, Speed determines which Pokémon goes attacks first each turn.

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Learn battle mechanics. By playing the game, you should already figure out how the game is played. But you can go even further. Pokémon with higher speed get the first turn in battle, which can be very crucial. In battle, a Pokémon's moves have a chance of hitting the opponent. A Pokémon even has a chance of doing double damage with an attack, called a critical hit. Each attack has a Power Point usage count. This count determines how many times a Pokémon can use the attack. Attacks like Tackle have a high PP count, of 35. Stronger attacks, like Thunder, have a PP count of only 10. Make sure that you balance moves by choosing attacks that are efficient; Thunder is powerful, but you can only use it 10 times, and it is inaccurate. Thunderbolt is weaker, but you can use it 15 times, and it is very accurate.Remember if your Pokémon is out of power points for all moves, you start using a move called struggle Some types of moves are great against others (like water against fire); whereas certain moves are not very good against others (like fire against water).

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Learn about status effect. A status effect has a chance of happening in battle, and they have negative effects for the affected. These effects are: Paralysis, Burn, Poison, Freeze, and Sleep. When a Pokémon is paralyzed, their speed is halved and there is a 20% chance of being completely unable to attack that turn. When a Pokémon is poisoned, they begin to lose some HP each turn, until they are defeated. When a Pokémon is burned, their attack goes down slightly and they lose some HP per turn. When put to sleep, Pokémon cannot attack until they wake up at a random number of turns later. Finally, the most potent affliction is freeze. A frozen Pokémon cannot do anything at all until they thaw out. There are also other status effects, which are not immediately visible. These can overlap with the obvious ones, such as Sleep or Poison. These effects include flinching, in which the flinched Pokémon does not attack that turn, Confusion, in which the Pokémon has a chance of attacking itself, and others. Also, Pokémon with status conditions are easier to catch (sleep and frozen are more effective).

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For the Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/HeartGold/SoulSilver Guys, If you go to the Battle Tower, every Pokémon you see there in a battle will NOT be registered in your PokéDex. That isn't good. So don't bother entering if you want to complete your PokeDex. DO bother yourself if you want to see how powerful a Pokémon really is. You can buy helpful items such as HP Up, Rare Candy, Life Orb, and TMs! These items will make your Pokémon super powerful!

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Defeat other trainers. Start battling trainers once your Pokémon have battled against wild Pokémon and get stronger. A trainer has stronger Pokémon than wild ones, and these Pokémon give more experience than wild ones. Some people assert that "forcing" Pokémon to fight each other is abusing them; what these people forget is that Pokémon are competitive and love to battle each other, so go ahead and battle to your heart's content! You can also battle your friends at any Pokémon Center, so grab your friends and see who's the best!

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Go spelunking. What's a good Pokémon quest without some spelunking? If you see a mysterious cave, then by all means, go inside! If you see an abandoned power plant said to have a wild and wildly power Pokémon rampaging inside, then go inside it despite the pleas of the engineers! If you see a long tower leading up to the sky where the primal Pokémon of the sky that can easily tear you apart lives, then start climbing that tower! You won't get anywhere if you just stick to catching Pokémon that appear randomly in some National Park! Go adventuring, find some treasure, find some strong Pokémon, and some insanely strong Pokémon.

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Trade Pokémon where available. In games where trading can be done with GTS Negotiations, try it. It's much easier than having to wait for a Pokémon in the GTS, and then getting a level 1 Pokémon.

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Defeat the eight gym leaders. Gym leaders are the elite trainers, and they have stronger Pokémon than most trainers. There are eight gym leaders in a single region, and each leader has their own theme, such as Rock-types Brock of the Pewter Gym, Ghost-type Morty of Ecruteak City, Flying-type Winona of Fortree Gym, and Electric-type Volkner of Sunyshore City. Each gym leader gives you a badge, proving you beat him/her. Earn eight badges and you'll arrive at the Pokémon League, where the most powerful trainers hone their skills.

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Start battling the Elite Four. Your region should have a group known as the Elite Four, the top four trainers of that region who preside over the Pokémon championships. It takes eight badges to prove your ready for the Elite Four. The Four follow a theme like the gym leaders, except they are just a little more lax on their theme type. The Elite Four must be fought right after the other, without breaks, unlike gym leaders who are fought when you get to their respective towns. Once you beat them, you are the best! Or are you?

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Battle the Champion. You didn't think that you're the first one to beat the Elite Four? You'll usually find out that your rival just made it to the Elite Four before you did, and he already took the cake. Or, you might get to the Elite Four only to realize that a well-trusted ally is the champion, leading to quite an interesting battle. No matter, what the case, the Champion is even stronger than the Elite Four, and usually has the most varied mix of Pokémon. Once you beat him/her, you are the best!

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Catch all the Pokémon. Well, if you became the Champion, you are just a very, very powerful Pokémon trainer. If you want to be a true Pokémon master, you'll have to do a lot of things. You'll have to catch all the Pokémon. If you got far enough to beat the Elite Four, you should have enough money to buy the new Poké Balls, such as Ultra Balls, or the special balls like the Timer Balls or Quick Balls which are more specialized. You have a lot of Pokémon to catch; Pokémon researchers have found 719(Hoopa is now an official Pokémon. Volcanion isn't, so he isn't included in that number. You still can't catch Hoopa legitimately yet though.)Pokémon so far. You'll need to trade around for some of the rare Pokémon. You'll also need to transfer the legendary Pokémon from original GBA games into Diamond and Pearl in order to have the complete set.

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Enter into Pokémon Contests (in the newer versions). There's more to Pokémon than just battling! There are also contests of coolness, cuteness, toughness, smartness and beauty! Enter your Pokémon into these contests and have them participate in three rounds. The first round, they get judged by the audience based on appearance and high statistics, based on the theme. The second round consists of a dance exhibition. The final round is a mock battle in which the point is to make the Pokémon look cool, cute, tough, smart, or beautiful when they use certain attacks. Winning these events will win you ribbons.

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Train the perfect Pokémon (if you can). If you can build a perfect Pokémon, and feel good afterward, then do it with your entire team! For help, click here.

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Start being a Pokémon Master. Now that you've won a bunch of ribbons, collected all 150 Pokémon in Red/Blue/Yellow, 251 in Gold/Silver/Crystal, 386 in Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald/Fire Red/Leaf Green, 493 in Diamond/Pearl/Platinum/HeartGold/SoulSilver, 649 in Black/White/Black 2/White 2, and/or all 718 (obtainable) Pokémon in X/Y/Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire, became Champion, and trained a team of perfect Pokémon (if you did it), you can start being a true Pokémon Master! But wait, what if you want to be the Pokémon Master? Well, start competing against other Pokémon Masters in high-powered battles and contests. Take it to the next level, the 3-D consoles, in the Stadium, Colosseum, or even the new Battle Revolution and fight against pumped up trainers. Find the people who have both come out on top in being the Champion, capturing all the Pokémon, winning all the contests, maybe got to training the perfect Pokémon team, and won in the 3-D consoles to further separate the Pokémon Master from the Semi-Pokémon Master.

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The Pokeathlon. In HeartGold/SoulSilver there is a new feature called the Pokeathlon, it is the words Pokémon and Triathlon because you select 3 Pokémon and do 3 events. There are 5 courses: Speed, Stamina, Power, Jump, and Skill. All of the Pokémon have base stats in each category and a maximum amount they can get. You can raise the base stat up to the maximum stat by using Aprijuice. There are ten courses total: The Snow Throw, the Pennant Capture, the Goal Roll, the Relay Run, the Hurdle Dash, the Disc Catch, the Lamp Jump, The Ring Drop, The Block Smash, and the Circle Push. What's cool about the Pokeathlon is your Pokémon can do good without being highly trained, just high evolution and lots of aprijuice. So what are you waiting for? Go out there and start your Pokémon experience. Tough battles and exiting challenges await you. Once you have become a master, remember to tell your friends to come here if they want to be masters. Now go out there and show the Pokémon world who you are!Now that you've defeated the Johto gym leaders you are ready to travel over to Kanto! To get to Kanto just go to Olivine city and go over to the Olivine port and talk to the man to get on the S.S. Aqua(only after you defeat the elite four) The ship only runs on Mondays and Fridays and your in Vermilion city. Or you can take the Magnet Train once you get the pass from Copycat.

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Train your Pokémon with wild Pokémon or trainers when you have nothing to do while playing your game. The Elite Four can be beaten an infinite number of times and are a great source of money, too!

Train your Pokémon so they look like they were trained by a master. Keep them at high levels, with a wide range of attacks high stats, and a large inventory of items like Magnet, Charcoal, Mystic Water, and Miracle Seed. Make sure they cover each others' weaknesses, too.

Be kind to your friends. Make them want to work with you again.

There is no such thing as a bad trainer. Every trainer is strong in their own way. (For example, you may have powerful Pokémon. Your friend David may have many Fire-type Pokémon. Your other friend Sarah may be exceptional in Contests. Your other other friend Billy may have many Pokémon eggs. You and each of your friends are powerful in their own way.)

Catch all the Pokémon that you can. Some Pokémon are rares, and cannot be caught except in a few games. Kindly ask a few friends for help like trading, advice, etc.

You can never have an unbeatable team. Every team has its weaknesses, so never claim to be "unbeatable."

Particularly more experienced players. Those which know the console of the game they're playing. Otherwise they might refuse to help you, or just trash you in battle.

Get all the badges and beat the Pokémon league. That's an obvious step.

Buy a guide book for your game if you are still struggling. This will help.

Don't brag about your toughness. This can and will get others upset.

EV train your Pokémon. This will help them become stronger and more powerful than normal trained Pokémon. To EV (Effort Value) train your Pokémon, fight against a Pokémon whose main stat is the one you want your Pokémon to get stronger at. For example, a Blissey whose worst stat is Defense should train with wild Geodude or Graveler. A Geodude gives you 1 EV Point, and at every 4 points you get 1 more stat increase in that stat when it levels up, and in this case, if Blissey fought 8 Geodude and leveled up, and say, got a +3 in Defense, the Geodude gave it +2 in Defence because if you fought 8, you got 4 two times which equals a +2 bonus in Defense, where you would have normally gotten +1. Its not really that hard, and the results will make your Pokémon stronger! It may be frustrating to only fight certain Pokémon.

Do not use a Master ball. Save it for later.

And... Please resist the urge to cheat. (Do so for personal entertainment and idea testing only. Also do it on a save file you don't care about much so that if something goes wrong or you want a cheat free game later on, you will have one. to get started on cheating use a search engine to look for action replay ds/dsi/3ds, pokesav.)

Connect to Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and test your skills.

Remember that cheating is not ideal if you want to be a Pokémon master. Everything should be done legitimately. It does take time and effort on your part, but if you are truly dedicated, then follow the correct path, and the tips here to become a Pokémon Master.

IV train your Pokémon. IVs are things that increase your Pokémon's stats. You have no control over IV's. When you get a Pokémon, (Mating/Catching) it randomly calculates from 0-31. The higher the number the higher the Pokémon stats. To find what your Pokémon IV's are go to http://www.psypokes.com/dex/iv.php.

When you battle other people, ideally, your Pokémon should be higher leveled and powerful. Unless you're doing it to EV train, don't battle lower leveled Pokémon. Plus it won't be fun or challenging if you battle a Level 100 Arceus with the Level 3 Starlys you find in the first patch of grass.

Warnings

9 out of 10 people won't catch every Pokémon. There are 718 Pokémon, so don't get frustrated! For the professor to say you've completed the PokéDex, you'll need to catch all Pokémon excluding event-only Pokémon.

Show good sportsmanship about it.

You will get frustrated if you don't stop for a break every once in a while. Every hour take a break and do something else besides video games, like watching TV or playing a board game with a friend.

Don't cheat or exploit glitches. Real Pokémon Masters never cheat in any part of the game. Nintendo will find out someday if they deem it to be affecting your normal game play. So please try to keep cheating to your self unless you know what you are getting into. Also cheating can be a real pain when your game or computer get corrupted from occasional overly enthusiastic on your part, human errors, and scams.

Don't brag a lot. Not everyone is as powerful as you, and there are probably better trainers than you.

Don't be a little kid about any of it. It's just a game, you may not be able to be a Pokémon master.